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SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1937 14 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON WAR AND FIRE LAY WASTE TO CHINESE CITY (Continued from page 1) ol the world's largest port hid been destroyed. Fire leveled most of Chinese Cha pel, Japanese Hongkew. YangUepoo, Industrial Fcotung, across the Whangpoo river, and Klankwan. Only the International settle ment, the French concession and parts of Nantao In the Soochow creek area remain Intact. In the absence of firemen, who already had evcauated the burning areas, the flames continued to spread unchecked In all directions. Stifling smoke and fierce heat were driving many Chinese belligerents from the Hongkew battle area, Three Chinese warplanes dron;d over the smoking ruins In renewal of warfare today, aiming their bombs at the Japanese consulate. The projectiles fell wide of the mark, but killed one Chinese and one Japanese and wounded 13 oth ers, all believed to be Japanese. From the United States cruiser Augusta, $10,000,000 flagship of the American fleet, grim-faced blue jackets carried the shell-ripped body of a 31 year old Louisiana boy, one of the crew and the fourth Ameri can to be killed since the hostilities started. The body was wrapped In the stars and stripes. The mighty Augusta still lay res olutely at anchor on a curve of the Whangpoo near the heart of the In ternational settlement to protect American lives while Investigators sought to learn the origin of the one-inch anti-aircraft shell that killed the seaman, Freddie John Falgout of Raceland, La. A routine navy inquiry board headed by Commander E. H. Kin cald of the Augusta heard testi mony of persons who witnessed the shelling. Chinese authorities, while disclaiming responsibility for the incident, conducted a similar In vestigation. . As the Shanghai hostilities en tered the second week, foreign au thorities estimated Chinese casual ties to date as about 5,000 as against 600 Japanese. Japanese diplomatic sources de clared Japanese forces were In no way connected with the shelling of the Augusta which resulted in the death of Falgout and wounding of IB other sailors. Although American naval officers said they believed the shell which landed on the Augusta came from an anti-aircraft gun, a Japanese embassy spokesman said Japanese thought the projectile was fired by a Chinese trench mortar. The United States consulate said approximately 500 American women residents of Shanghai have decided to remain despite the wishes of au thorities that they leave the city. Whether their evacuation will be ordered depends upon seriousness of hostilities. American civilian volunteers won a bloodless brush with armed Jap. anese. The Japanese massed In front of the British Hongkong and Shanghai bank, south of Soochow Creek, and demanded entrance saying they wanted their deposits. The Americans disarmed the Jap anese party and turned them over to Japanese bluejackets. The Jap anese said there were 10,000 of their countrymen In the Hangkew area virtually without food. Four missiles blasted Into the area behind the consulate in the French concession while Japanese anti-air craft gunners attempted futilely to pick off the wheeling, diving attack, ers. Shanghai soon rumbled anew to the thunder of artillery. Five hundred twenty-five retu. gees of various nationalities fled to the safety of the open sea, board' ing the French liner Aramis under and shower of screaming shrapnel. The refugees Included 200 French and 175 Protuguese. The planes that attacked the Jap anese consulate were of American manufacture. They retired un scathed after the bombing. Shanghai entered the ninth day of the carnage-fraught struggle be tween powerful Chinese and Jap anese armies In a setting of devas. tation. Oreat sections of the city were in smoking ruins after a day and night of terror. An estimated fourth of greater Shanghai's densely populated area was an unchecked holocaust during the night, the result of air bom bardment, naval shelling and ar tlllery demolition. The damage reached into tens of millions of dollars. The loss In life was enorm ous. The gun duels of the locked forc es along the winding Whangpoo river turned Hongkew, the Japan. ese section; Yangtzepoo, eastern section of the International settle ment; Chapel, the Chinese area and Pootung. the Industrial district across the Whangpoo to the east, into vistas of charred and tumbled buildings. The thick pall of black smoke was still relieved here and then by sheets of flame. Banks and Insurance companies face tremendous losses as a conse quence of the fires touched off by artillery shells and bombs. Losses in trade are incalculable. Flames ate near to the American owned Shanghai Electric Power company plant, the largest In Chi na, causing the company hurriedly to evacuate Its staff. Fire also threatened the Japanese and Soviet Union consulates. The nerves of civilians were fray. Kd to the point of hysteria. One hundred sixty-four Ameri cans appealed to the United States consulate to provide means for their transportation back to the States insuad of Manila, where hundreds of refugees already have been tak en. The principle of the electric cell Was discovered hv f.niiri n.lu.ni .n . Italian anatomist j is.. 25 U. S. 8. AUGUSTA HIT IN WHANGPOO; ONE DEAD One seaman was killed and 18 wounded when an anti-aircraft shell exploded aboard the U. 8. S. Augusta (above), flagship of the Asiatic fleet of the U. 8. navy as she lay anchored in the Whangpoo river. The accident occurred during a fight between Japanese and Chinese forces. The vessel Is shown at anchor In the Whangpoo (Associated Press Photo.) 13,000 Americans Stay In Hostile Zone Rather Than Leave Business Shanghai. Aug. 21 (&) Thirteen thousand Americans and 100,000 other foreigners, including Japanese, have chosen the perils of war to leaving the land where they have homes, business or property. Except for American women missionaries. notably in South China, who insist upon remaining at their posts to as sist war-stricken natives, most of the American women, children and many men already have been evac uated from the danger zones, The United States authorities are prepared to make evacuation of all Americans mandatory except for those who must remain as a matter of duty such as army and navy men and newspapermen. Japan, whose 100,000 nationals gave her the biggest International Continuation of Mrs. Becknell from page 1 state's office. In order to drive her car she will require a new license. A charge of driving without a tail- light still pends. Two applications of Mrs. Becknell for a driver's license were rejected by the secretary of state on the grounds she had failed to fill out the birth date space properly. Mrs. Becknell, friends say, still Insists she is required only to report the number of her years, not the date. The committing magistrate at the time of sentence declared Mrs. Becknell had been "defiant of the secretary of state, the state police and this court over a long period." Non-Zionist Group Bolts Zurich Meet Zurich. Switzerland. Aug. 21 (P) The American non-Zionist delega tion bolted a session of the poli tical committee of the Jewish ag ency for Palestine yesterday In a dispute over the British plan to partition Palestine Into sovereign Jewish and Arabian states. The Americans, led by Felix M. Warburg, the New York banker philanthropist, withdrew after the committee voted to recommend ra tification of a Zionist congress re solution that would open the way for negotiations with Britain on the partition scheme. The American group favora ne gotiations with Arab leaders not Britain for establishment of a single Arabian-Jewish state In Pa lestine, Warburg said. LITTLE GIRL WALKING Zena A Zena girl. Rose Marie Butler, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Prank Butler, Is learning: the an 01 walking with a brace on her lower limb, this summer. The baby has had a stiff knee for several months and was taken to Port land physician this month where a brace was fitted to the knee. "WENT HAYWIRE" Eugene Paul Wamer, 31 - year - old Hutchinson. Kas., oil field work er, shown after he confessed he killed his three young children and 32-year-old wife. They were hacked to death as they left. He told officers he went "haywire." (Associated Press Photo.) stake In China, has reduced that number to a few thousands, mostly In South China cities. This wholesale evacuation of Jap anese, many of whom had prosper ous businesses In China, will cause Japan to lose hundreds of millions of yen in trade unless or until her mil itary dominates China. If it falls, she has lost Irretrievably the Chinese market which each year bad absorb ed countless amounts of Japan's cheap goods unsalable elsewhere be cause of trade barriers. With the areas of Sino-Japanese hostilities ever widening, the United States army and navy now have pro tective units at or near every import ant area where American lives or interests are Involved. In constant touch by wireless and with the two forces cooperating very closely, the army and navy units are ready at a moment's notice to pro ceed to trouble zones to rescue any endangered Americans or safeguard their property. At Shanghai, in addition to 1152 marines, there are the flagship Au gusta, the destroyers Edsall and Par- rott, the gunboat Sacramento and the yacht Isabel of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Asiatic fleet commander. The minelayer Finch is en route here from Tslngtao. ' At Canton the gunboat Mindanao, flagship of the South China patrol, Is guarding American Interests while at Nanking the gunboat Guam Is on a similar assignment. Further up the Yangtze river from Nanking there Is one American gun boat at Hankow and one at Chung king. At Tientsin, In the north, now completely In the hands of the Jap anese, the United States has 800 in fantrymen and at Pelping, in the same northern war zone, there are 600 marines. American naval and military au thorities are prepared to summon re inforcements if the war takes a gra ver turn and the Uvea of the 13.000 Americans In China are further im periled. Dixie Bibb Graves 4th Woman in Senate Washington, Aug. 21 yp Mrs. Di xie Blob Graves of Alabama Is the fourth woman ever appointed to the senate and all four of them came from the south. Mrs. Rebecca L. Felton of Geor gia was the first. She served one day November 7, 1922 under a court esy appointment. Next were two widows of former senators, Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas and Mrs. Rose Long of Louisiana. Mrs. Caraway, only wo man ever elected to a full term, Is still In the senate. Mrs. Long, widow of Huey Long, gave up her seat on the election last November to Allen J. Ellender. She was not a candidate. Name Too Long, So They Want Billville Brazil, Ind., Aug. 21 vD Citizens of William Williams corner, a little community a mile south of here, are tired of saying and writing the name of the place they live in. "It's too long. It takes too much breath and too much Ink," they com. plain. So they have prepared petitions asking that the community's name be changed to "Billville." QUITS FOOTBALL Berkeley, Calif., Aug. 21 U.R) Robert Gilbert, of Portland, Ore., guard on the University of Califor nia football squad, said today he would not play football this year. Gilbert, a student of optometry. said he was giving up the pigskin to devote all his time to his stu dies. The priceless records of William Oilbert, originator of the modern science of electricity, were lost in the Great Fire of London in IBM. Ti iii Aiimiiii World Famous AKRON TRUSSES Correctly Fitted We Guarantee Comfort and Security CAPITAL DRI'O STORE i BUCK SALE TO FEATURE EVENT Plans are being completed today for Salem's annual fall opening to be held the night of September 2. Milton Josephson is heading the committee on arrangements. A novel feature this year is the "Buck Auction Sale" on the night of the opening. Starting Monday, August 23, and continuing dally, the merchants participating will give 10 "buck certificates" with each 25 cent purchase. These 10 buck cert if icates wlil be accumulated by the public who may use them to buy merchandise at auction on Fall Opening nfght. No real money will be accepted for the merchandise to be auctioned, all articles must be paid for In "buck certificates," each article, of course, going to the high est bidder. Families and friends may pool their "bucks" for the big sale. In addition to the auction there will be the usual abundance of mu sic and the carnival dance. Windows will be unveiled at 7:30. LOUIS DECLINES TO BECOME PROPHET Pompton Lakes, N. J., Aug. 21 VP) Joe Louis is willing to talk freely on most subjects especially base ballbut he Is strangely silent on how long he thinks his bout with Tommy Parr next week will last. . "I feel fine and expect to win," he says, "but there's no chance of me naming the round. "I picked a few very close, but I was only guessln' After the Max Schmellng bout I decided I should stop picking the round. The scrap with Bob Pastor also showed me It was fooling. So Just say Joe feels great and expects to beat Tommy Fair, that's all." Louis does every thing asked of him and follows orders with good grace. He wanted to play catch yesterday, but when Manager Julian Black told him the soft ball had been locked up until after the fight because of the danger he might hurt a finger, Joe merely grinned and found something else to do. Score of Attorneys Want Healy's Post , Spokane, Aug. 21 (jP) R. F. Brown, general agent of the farm credit administration of Spokane, said a score of attorneys from Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana are under consideration as successor to William Healy as (en era 1 counsel. The appointment will await the meeting of the board September 20. Healy resigned to accept an ap pointment to the circuit court of appeals at 8an Francisco. Two Mayors Head Round-up Parade Pendleton, Aug. 21 (Pi Two may ors Joe Carson of Portland and C. L. Lieuailen of Pendleton will head the annual Westward Ho! parade, a feature of the Pendleton Round-up, on Friday, September 17, They will head a parade In which 100 spotted horses, a rare spotted mule, and even more rare, a team of 12 spotted oxen, take part, ac cording to George Strand, parade director. The Round-up will be held here September It, 17 and II. GETTING OUT LOGS Falls City Mr. and Mrs. WiUiam Lockman are moving from Forest Grove to a place between Palls City and Black Rock when the 8. P. company Is building a spur to bring the logs out for the Spauldlng com pany. In the Socialist valley dis trict. He will have charge of the steam shovel. You Can't Live and enjoy life If yon are suf fering pain and mental tor ture which come aa a re sult of Arthritis, Lumbal, Sciatica, Rheumatism. VAPO-PATH the natural method, with a twenty-year reeertl aa proof f what H can accomplish, la worth year Investigation. John F. Clasd Vapo-Fath A. L. ELVIN, Licensee 521 N. Cottage Ph. 131 FRANCO HOPES CITY MAY FALL COMING WEEK By EDWARD 1. NEIL With Insurgents on the Santand- er Front, Aug. 21 (P Weather per mitting, Generalissimo Francisco Franco expects his army to reach Santander possibly in the early part of next week and that 8panlsh city may be his before another Satur day Today his two strong southern columns hammered with almost monotonous success at dwindling government defenses, with but 29 miles of roadway to cover before they can knife into Santander. In the mountains on Santander's southwest, with one of these col umns, this writer witnessed a bat tle as fantastic as anything in Spain's fantastic civil war. It was a battle of ghosts mud and blood smeared ghosts struggling hand to hand in a dripping fog. For six days Franco's airmen, ar tillery and Infantry had blasted at the ever-receding government lines, most of the time under the broiling rays of an uncurtained sun, rout ing the half-hearted Basques, the more stubborn Santanderese and the die-hard Asturian miners who are the backbone of the northern defenses. Then down came the fogs, shrouding the mountain tops, soak ing everyone in mist and hiding at tacker and attacked alike. Yester day the Burgos road column of shock troops thrust through the fog at a point about 12 miles south of Torrciavega. Six battalions of Asturians about 3,000 In all were waiting on the mountainsides, protected by the fog from both Franco's artillery and planes. The Insurgents went on like men feeling their way in the dark and I came fumbling along Just behind the troops. Suddenly the milky air was full of zinging bullets. Ma chine guns chattered. Thus start ed the battle of ghosts. Legionnaires crouched and climb ed from rock to rock. One straight ened up and plunged face down with a bullet through his throat. He made a queer, gurgling noise and a red froth bubbled over his face. Another, with a broken leg. tried to hop to safety but slid off into the murk down the hillside. There were many casualties but the insur gents pressed forward, groping al most to the muzzles of the Astur ians' rifles and machine guns. Hand grenades started bursting. Men were screaming. Bayonets were used as daggers. The struggle lasted for an hour, then the As turians fell back into the fog. j Wosrriol fl' (N ' thritlinc show... Packed with dramatic displays! Ijffjji I'iSi I tVv S. See the human voice changed into a dancing light I ," 'rilwP T I III' I wBrivN. See the "cold stove" that fries an eggl r'ffi' jjjiW "vXjf "VL&i ' ec nev' tlroad rail bend at a Anger's touch 1 I 1(V-::V&- Salem Circus Grounds WA j LJ I ' J? y ffr 14th & Madison dSiTi jwi Tomorrow and Monday I LZiKg?J. M ,naSi'',WasW V 1 CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE MONDAY I 4tASlm fr4T,0P'M' J j ' l't. - J V-." H j W it: 1 P-'l if w iu vu U THUNDER OVER SHANGHAI. Troops, guns and marching men of many nations rattled in increasing tempo down Shanghai's streets as that international city of the Far East with 3,000.000 residents . . . 3,000 Americans among them . , , seemed caught in the deadly Sino-Japanese conflict. Japan's mighty war ships filled the harbor and Nipponese bluecoats unloaded tons of munitions. These American troops at Shanghai were prepared for "any eventuality." SUSTAINED YIELD PROGRAM LIKED Washington. Aug. 21 (JP) Oregon congressmen and interior depart ment officials joined today in ex pressing satisfaction with a bill .setting up a sustained-yield man agement program for some 2,500,000 timbered acres of revested grant lands. The measure, awaiting the presi dent's signature, provides for re distribution of revenue, giving grant land counties approximately $400, 000 annually in lieu of taxes pre viously received from the Oregon and California railroad company and the Coos Bay Wagon Road com pany, from which the government confiscated the land for violation of grant terms. Interior department officials said the new plan would put the admin istration "on a business basis," while Representative James Mott of Salem, Ore., said he was "well, satisfied" with the provisions which include: 1. Sustained yield management 2. Perpetual payment of 50 per cent of the revenue to the counties, 3. Payment of 25 per cent to counties until delinquent tax loss reimbursements have been liqui dated, after which 25 per cent will go to the government to clear a deficit in the land grant fund. 4. Payment of 25 per cent to the interior department for administra tion. 5. A guarantee that the annual revenue to counties shall never be less than 78 per cent of the $500,000 received in 1934. Automobile roads Ln Manchuria have Increased from 400 miles to 4.000 since 1933. FILM DEVELOPING We develop and print any size roll (fi or R exposures) m Reprints 3c each ZC Send us a negative for a free sam ple. Quality work quick service. BKB FILM CO. (Station H, Box fto(J2, Portland, Ore. THOUSANDS IN MANILA SEEK AID IN PARKS- (Continued trom Page On) indicated the damage was not con lined to Manila. OlIlclaLs condemned Heacock's Department store on the Escolta, main downtown street, ana oegan an inspection of the municipal pier, largest ln the far east. Guests who abandoned tne great eastern hotel returned after Inspec tors said the building was safe, al though the foundation had been da maged. A mass tragedy was averted by minutes ln Paete, Rizal province. Several hundred church goers had just left the 200-year old Catholic church when the roof collapsed, strewing heavy debris over the floor.". where they had knelt a moment be- fore In prayer. The 400 year old Catholic church at Santa Maria, Laguna, was de stroyed. Many other churches of Manila and surrounding provinces were damaged. Atrocious Murdei Admitted by Warner Hutj.hln.vin. Kan- Aua. 21 (U.R Authorities said today that Paul (Dutch) Warner had confessed he hacked to death his wife, Louise, and their three children witn a aouoie- bitted axe. rvitmt.v At.tarnpv Weslev E. Brown said Warner replied to questions as to his motive: "Vnii'vn ant me there. Mv mind Just went blank. I'm sorry now I did It. I guess I Just went naywire." Wamer had tried to Mil hlmseff by raising the axe above his head and letting the blade fall. His scalp J was cut in several places. 383 STATE ST. Complete Optical Servle School will start soon. Have the chil dren's eyes checked. 8tart them out with the knowledge they have per feet sight. OEFECTy i
